Guys my main pc (specs below) had been on for about 30 mins this morning, i was just surfing on a Forum, the only thing i had done with the pc today. Then i went to close down firefox, it was at this point i realized the PC had frozen. The mouse, keyboard nothing worked. So i had to reboot, first attempt went through post then came the "start pc from last known" +the other safe mode options. Going the safe mode route results in the pc stopping at the loading system32\drivers screen. there are no error messages whatsoever. Nothing seems to get the pc to boot. This pc has been stable and not missed a beat for the last two years. I do have a recent ghost image, BUT before i revert back to that i just wondered what else i could try. Oh Dear i cannot even get Ghost to work, it boots from the dvd drive gets to a screen after it starts to load, that says "please wait" snd then it just hangs there. Thanks in advance __________________ Asus A7N8x deluxe, XP2700+,SLK800 hsf, Corsair 1024MB DDR XMS3200 TwinX (2x512MB) Platinum ,Sapphire Radeon 9800pro,Western digital 80 gig/8mb cache, Seagate 40 gig, Coolermaster ATCs 201 case,Xp Pro sp2.
It will not as stated above start in "Safe mode" Below is listed what happened and what i have done so far. 1st, i was just surfing the net, noticed the mouse was not working when i went to close firefox, CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up Task Manager did nothing, windows key did nothing not even any HD activety. So i hit the reset button, the pc went through the post stage no error bleeps, then went to the " We appologize for the inconvenience, bla blah page" with the options "last known good configuration etc" "start windows normally". No matter which option on this page is selected the result is the same, i get a blank screen, the only option that is different is if i choose the "safe mode" option, this actually starts the loading process but stops when it gets to "Windows\System32\Drivers\Mup.sys". If i try to use Ghost 9.0 it goes through the loading stage but then stops again at the "Starting windows" message, this also applies to the WinXp disk. I have run "SeaTools" HD diagnostic program(runs from floppy) ran a quick test, came back fine, then ran thorough also came back with no errors. The same with Memtest86, ran this through all the tests twice, not one single error. I can get running is via floppy, is Partition magic 8.0, and when it has loaded and i run the disk info tab i get the Error 1516: "Partition improperly dismounted". I guess this is because of the way XP just crashed in the first place. Temp of cpu has remained constant at 43-44c, the same as my almost identical pc in the same room.
